Zoom是用于video and/or audio conferencing会议应用程序(conferencing app),也是远程团队的最佳协作工具之一。该应用程序允许您召开无限次会议、拨打无限次电话以及记录您的通话或会议(record your calls or meetings)。
Zoom Breakout Rooms是您在(Zoom Breakout Rooms)Microsoft Teams或Google Meet中找不到的鲜为人知的功能之一。分组讨论室的工作(Breakout Rooms work)方式类似于实体研讨会或研讨会(seminar or workshop)中的分组讨论,允许您将Zoom 会议(Zoom meeting)拆分为单独的会议。
在本指南中,我们将引导您完成设置Zoom 分组讨论室(Zoom Breakout Rooms)的过程,以帮助您全面了解该功能。
什么是 Zoom 分组讨论室?(What Is a Zoom Breakout Room?)
Zoom 分组(Zoom breakout)讨论室是Zoom 会议主持人(Zoom meeting’s host)手动或自动创建的单独界面,以在一个会话中容纳更多会议。
例如,如果您在Zoom(Zoom)上主持全国代表会议,您可以为不同的省或县创建分组讨论室。(Breakout Rooms)您可以根据他们所代表的县或省(county or province)将代表分成几个较小的组。
会议主持人(meeting host)可以在Zoom 中央会议(Zoom meeting)室中创建多达 50 个分组会议。用户可以从任何兼容设备或主要平台(包括Windows、Mac、Linux、Android 和 iOS )(Android and iOS)加入 Zoom 会议(join a Zoom meeting)和分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)。
在加入分组讨论室(breakout room)之前,请检查您使用的设备是否与Zoom 软件(Zoom software)兼容,并且在您的设置中启用了分组讨论室。(breakout room)
如何设置缩放分组讨论室(How To Setup a Zoom Breakout Room)
- 要在Zoom中开设分组讨论室(Breakout room),请登录Zoom。
- 单击左侧窗格中“个人”部分中的“设置( Personal )” 。(Settings )
- 转到右侧会议(Meeting )选项卡下的会议中(高级) 。(In Meeting (Advanced))
- 单击分组讨论室(Breakout Room) 选项并验证(option and verify)它是否已启用。如果它被禁用,请切换开关以启用它。
- 如果您想将参与者预先分配到分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms),请单击此选项的允许主持人在安排时将参与者分配到分组讨论室(Allow host to assign participants to breakout rooms when scheduling)复选框。
- 要为特定群组的成员启用分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms),请以管理员身份登录Zoom ,然后单击导航菜单中的(admin and click) User Management > Group Management。
- 单击组名称(Group name),然后点击或单击设置(Settings)。在会议(Meeting)选项卡下,确认分组会议室选项(Breakout Room option)已启用。您还可以允许会议主持人将参与者预先分配到分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)。
注意(Note):您可以使用上述相同步骤启用分组讨论室功能供您自己使用。(Breakout Rooms feature)但是,如果“分组讨论室”选项(Breakout Room option)显示为灰色,则它可能已锁定在“帐户”或“组”级别(Account or Group level)。在这种情况下,您需要联系您的Zoom 管理员(Zoom administrator)以获得进一步的帮助。
如何创建和管理缩放分组讨论室(How To Create & Manage a Zoom Breakout Room)
启用Zoom Breakout 会议室(Zoom Breakout room)选项后,您可以管理会议室并将参与者预先分配到分组会议室(Breakout Rooms)。
注意(Note):只有Zoom 会议(Zoom meeting)的主持人可以将参与者分配到分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)。如果您是共同主持人,您只能加入和离开主持人分配给您的分组讨论会议室(Breakout room)。主持人最多可以创建 50 个分组讨论会议室(Breakout Rooms),其中最多可预分配 200 名参与者。
但是,每个房间的参与者数量受限于会议容量、创建的分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)数量以及参与者是否在会议期间被预先分配或分配。
How To Create a Zoom Breakout Room In Windows/Mac
- 开始Zoom 会议(Zoom meeting) (即时(– instant)或预定),然后单击分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)。
- 选择您要创建的房间数量以及(number of rooms)您希望如何将参与者分配到房间。如果您选择自动(automatically)分配参与者,Zoom会将他们平均分配到每个房间。如果您选择手动(manual)方法,您可以更好地控制要进入每个房间的参与者。
- 单击创建分组讨论室(Create Breakout Rooms)。
- 将创建分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms),但不会立即开始。您可以在房间开始之前通过单击选项(Options)来管理房间,以查看更多分组讨论室(Breakout Room)选项。选择要用于分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)的选项:
- 将(Move)所有参与者自动移至分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)。
- 允许参与者随时返回主会话。
- 分组讨论室(Rooms)在 x 分钟后自动关闭。
- 时间到时通知我。
- (Countdown)关闭分组讨论室后的(Breakout Rooms)倒计时。
- 单击打开所有房间(Open All Rooms)以启动分组讨论室。
- 如果您选择了将参与者分配到分组讨论室的(Breakout Rooms)手动方法(Manual method),请单击您要将其分配(Assign)到的房间旁边的分配。
- 选择您要分配到该房间的参与者,然后为您创建的每个分组讨论房间重复该操作。(Breakout room)分配参与者后,分配按钮(Assign button)将替换为房间中的参与者数量。
将参与者分配到分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)后,您可以重新排列参与者。一旦房间开始,任何未分配到房间的参与者都将留在更大的会议中。您还可以在房间之间移动或交换参与者、重新创建房间、添加新的分组讨论房间(Breakout Rooms)或删除房间。
注意(Note):每位参与者都会收到加入分组讨论室(Breakout room)的提示,一旦他们都移至各自的分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms),主持人将留在主会议中。如果您是主持人,您可以手动加入或离开正在进行的任何分组讨论会议室。(Breakout room)
- 主持人也可以在 60 秒倒计时后通过单击关闭所有房间来停止房间(Close All Rooms)。
- 您(主持人)还可以向所有分组(Breakout Rooms)会议室广播消息,以在会议室进行时分享更多信息或计时警告。要广播消息,请转到会议控制(Meeting Controls)并单击分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms )图标。
- 单击向所有人广播消息(Broadcast a message to all)。
- 单击蓝色的广播(Broadcast)按钮。该消息将显示给各自分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)中的所有参与者。
如何将参与者预先分配到分组讨论室(How To Pre-Assign Participants To Breakout Rooms)
作为Zoom 会议(Zoom meeting)的主持人,您可以在安排会议时将参与者预先分配到分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)。
注意(Note):参与者必须登录到他们的 Zoom 帐户才能被预先分配到分组讨论室(Breakout Room)。从Web 客户端(web client)加入的参与者不会被预先分配到分组讨论室(Breakout Room)。如果您启用了Zoom 会议(Zoom meeting)注册,并且有外部参与者注册了会议,您可以在会议期间将他们分配到分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)。
您可以使用门户网站(web portal)或CSV 文件(CSV file)将参与者预先分配到Zoom中的(Zoom)分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)。
如何使用门户网站预先分配人员到 Zoom 分组讨论室(How To Use The Web Portal To Pre-Assign People To Zoom Breakout Rooms)
- 登录(Sign)Zoom(Zoom web)门户网站,单击会议(Meetings)并安排会议。
- 在会议选项(Meeting Options)下选择分组讨论室预分配(Breakout Room pre-assign)。
- 单击创建房间(Create Rooms)。
- 在弹出窗口中,单击房间旁边的加(Rooms )号图标以(plus)添加房间。
- 如果您想重命名分组讨论房间(Breakout room),请将鼠标悬停在房间名称上,然后单击铅笔(pencil )图标。在添加参与者(Add participants)文本框中(text box)按姓名或电子邮件地址(name or email address)搜索(Search)参与者并将他们添加到分组讨论室(Breakout room)。您可以使用同一帐户添加内部用户、更改房间中参与者的顺序、移动或删除参与者(move or remove participants)以及删除分组讨论房间(Breakout room)。
- 单击保存(Save)。
如何使用 CSV 文件预先分配人员以缩放分组讨论室(How To Use a CSV File To Pre-Assign People To Zoom Breakout Rooms)
- 登录(Sign)Zoom(Zoom web)门户网站,单击会议(Meetings)并安排会议。
- 在会议选项(Meeting Options)部分选择分组讨论室预分配(Breakout Room pre-assign ),然后单击从 CSV 导入(Import from CSV)。
- 下载一个示例 CSV 文件,您可以通过单击“(Download a sample CSV file)下载(Download)”选项来填写该文件。
- 打开 CSV 文件并在Pre-assign Room Name列中填写分组讨论室的名称。电子邮件地址(Email Address)列将包含指定参与者的电子邮件地址。
- 保存文件。将(Drag)其拖放到Zoom(Zoom web)门户网站中,Zoom将验证该电子邮件地址(email address)是否有Zoom 帐户(Zoom account)。
- 您可以在开始会议之前编辑已预先分配给分组讨论室的分配。(Breakout Rooms)登录Zoom(Zoom web)门户网站,单击会议(Meetings )并选择您要编辑的会议。
- 单击分组讨论部分中的查看详细信息。(View Detail)
- (Edit)根据您的偏好编辑分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms),然后单击保存(Save)。
- 通过转到会议控件并单击分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms),开始与参与者预先分配分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)的会议。单击(Click)打开所有房间(Open All Rooms)以启动分组讨论室。
注意:您可以使用上面“(Note)如何创建和管理 Zoom 分组讨论室(How to Create and Manage a Zoom Breakout Room)”部分中提到的会议中分组讨论室(Breakout Room)控件手动分配参与者。您还可以在分组讨论室中开始(Breakout Rooms)白板会话(whiteboard session)并邀请参与者查看和注释。
轻松主持小组会议(Host Group Meetings Effortlessly)
Zoom Breakout Rooms是Zoom提供的一项免费服务,适用于多种用例,尤其是在会议有许多参与者的情况下。此类会议包括焦点小组、不同年级的班级会议或部门会议。
您是否主持过Zoom 会议(Zoom meeting)并使用了Zoom 分组讨论室功能(Zoom Breakout Rooms feature)?在评论中分享您的经验。
A Guide To Starting With Zoom Breakout Rooms
Zoom is a web conferencing app for video and/or audio cоnferencing, and also one of the best collaboration tools for remote teams. The app allows you to hold unlimited meetings, make unlimited phone calls, and record your calls or meetings.
One of the lesser known features in Zoom that you won’t find in Microsoft Teams or Google Meet are the Zoom Breakout Rooms. The Breakout Rooms work like breakout groups in a physical seminar or workshop by allowing you to split your Zoom meeting into separate sessions.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of setting up Zoom Breakout Rooms to help you understand the feature in its entirety.
What Is a Zoom Breakout Room?
Zoom breakout rooms are separate interfaces that the Zoom meeting’s host creates manually or automatically to accommodate more meetings in one session.
For example, if you’re hosting a national delegates’ meeting on Zoom, you can create Breakout Rooms for different provinces or counties. You can move the delegates into several smaller groups based on the county or province they represent.
A meeting host can create up to 50 breakout sessions in the central Zoom meeting room. Users can join a Zoom meeting and Breakout Rooms from any compatible device or major platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Before joining a breakout room, check whether you’re using a device that’s compatible with Zoom software, and that a breakout room is enabled in your settings.
How To Setup a Zoom Breakout Room
- To start a Breakout room in Zoom, sign into Zoom.
- Click Settings in the Personal section on the left pane.
- Go to In Meeting (Advanced) under the Meeting tab on the right side.
- Click the Breakout Room option and verify that it is enabled. If it’s disabled, toggle the switch to enable it.
- If you want to pre-assign participants to Breakout Rooms, click the Allow host to assign participants to breakout rooms when scheduling checkbox for this option.
- To enable Breakout Rooms for members of a specific group, sign into Zoom as an admin and click User Management > Group Management in the navigation menu.
- Click on the Group name and then tap or click Settings. Under the Meeting tab, verify that the Breakout Room option is enabled. You can also allow meeting hosts to pre-assign participants to Breakout Rooms.
Note: You can enable the Breakout Rooms feature for your own use, using the same steps above. However, if the Breakout Room option is grayed out, it’s probably locked at Account or Group level. In this case you need to contact your Zoom administrator for further assistance.
How To Create & Manage a Zoom Breakout Room
Once the Zoom Breakout room option is enabled, you can manage the rooms and pre-assign participants to the Breakout Rooms.
Note: Only the Zoom meeting’s host can assign participants to Breakout Rooms. If you’re a co-host, you can only join and leave a Breakout room that the host has assigned you to. A host can create up to 50 Breakout Rooms with up to 200 participants pre-assigned to the rooms.
However, the number of participants per room is limited to the meeting’s capacity, number of Breakout Rooms created, and if the participants are pre-assigned or assigned during the meeting.
How To Create a Zoom Breakout Room In Windows/Mac
- Start a Zoom meeting – instant or scheduled – and click Breakout Rooms.
- Choose the number of rooms you want to create and how you want to assign the participants to the rooms. If you choose to assign participants automatically, Zoom will split them up evenly into each room. If you choose the manual method, you have more control over which participant you want to go into each room.
- Click Create Breakout Rooms.
- The Breakout Rooms will be created, but they won’t start immediately. You can manage the rooms before they start by clicking Options to see more Breakout Room options. Select the options you want to use for the Breakout Rooms:
- Move all participants into Breakout Rooms automatically.
- Allow participants to return to the main session at any time.
- Breakout Rooms close automatically after x minutes.
- Notify me when the time is up.
- Countdown after closing Breakout Rooms.
- Click Open All Rooms to start the Breakout Rooms.
- If you selected the Manual method of assigning participants to the Breakout Rooms, click Assign next to the room you want to assign them to.
- Select the participants you want to assign to that room and then repeat the action for each Breakout room you created. Once you assign a participant, the Assign button will be replaced with the number of participants in the room.
After assigning participants to Breakout Rooms, you can rearrange the participants. Any participants who weren’t assigned to a room will remain in the larger meeting once the rooms start. You can also move or swap participants between rooms, recreate rooms, add new Breakout Rooms, or delete the rooms.
Note: Each participant will receive a prompt to join the Breakout room, and once they all move to their respective Breakout Rooms, the host remains in the main meeting. If you’re the host, you can manually join or leave any Breakout room in progress.
- A host can also stop rooms after a 60 second countdown by clicking Close All Rooms.
- You (host) can also broadcast a message to all Breakout Rooms to share more information or time-keeping warnings while the rooms are in progress. To broadcast a message, go to Meeting Controls and click the Breakout Rooms icon.
- Click Broadcast a message to all.
- Click the blue Broadcast button. The message will appear to all participants in their respective Breakout Rooms.
How To Pre-Assign Participants To Breakout Rooms
As the host of a Zoom meeting, you can pre-assign participants into Breakout Rooms as you schedule the meeting.
Note: Participants have to be signed into their Zoom accounts to be pre-assigned to a Breakout Room. Participants joining from the web client will not be pre-assigned to a Breakout Room. If you have enabled registration for the Zoom meeting, and there are external participants registered for the meeting, you can assign them to Breakout Rooms during the meeting.
You can use the web portal or a CSV file to pre-assign participants to Breakout Rooms in Zoom.
How To Use The Web Portal To Pre-Assign People To Zoom Breakout Rooms
- Sign into the Zoom web portal, click Meetings and schedule a meeting.
- Select Breakout Room pre-assign under Meeting Options.
- Click Create Rooms.
- In the popup window, click the plus icon next to Rooms to add a room.
- If you want to rename a Breakout room, hover over the name of the room and click the pencil icon. Search for participants by name or email address in the Add participants text box and add them to the Breakout room. You can add internal users using the same account, change the order of participants in the room, move or remove participants, and delete a Breakout room.
- Click Save.
How To Use a CSV File To Pre-Assign People To Zoom Breakout Rooms
- Sign into the Zoom web portal, click Meetings and schedule a meeting.
- Select Breakout Room pre-assign in the Meeting Options section and click Import from CSV.
- Download a sample CSV file which you can fill out by clicking the Download option.
- Open the CSV file and fill in the Pre-assign Room Name column with the Breakout Rooms’ name. The Email Address column will contain the email addresses of the assigned participants.
- Save the file. Drag and drop it in the Zoom web portal, and Zoom will verify that the email address has a Zoom account.
- You can edit the assignments you’ve already pre-assigned to Breakout Rooms before starting the meeting. Sign in to the Zoom web portal, click Meetings and select the meeting you’d like to edit.
- Click View Detail in the Breakout Room section.
- Edit the Breakout Rooms to your preference, and then click Save.
- Start the meeting with participants pre-assigned Breakout Rooms by going to the meeting controls and clicking Breakout Rooms. Click Open All Rooms to start the Breakout Rooms.
Note: You can assign participants manually using in-meeting Breakout Room controls mentioned in the How to Create and Manage a Zoom Breakout Room section above. You can also start a whiteboard session in Breakout Rooms and invite participants to view and annotate.
Host Group Meetings Effortlessly
Zoom Breakout Rooms is a free service from Zoom that works for multiple use cases, especially where a meeting has many participants. Such meetings include focus groups, class meetings for different grades, or departmental meetings.
Have you hosted a Zoom meeting and used the Zoom Breakout Rooms feature? Share your experience in the comments.